Fastly
Fastly, San Francisco, California, United StatesFastly is a global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world.
It operates a network of over 120 points of presence with more than 460 Tbps of connected global capacity, and offers built-in DDoS and web application firewall protection, origin shielding to reduce backend load, instant purging of cached content, and fine-grained API control over HTTP headers and caching rules.
According to our data, Fastly is the third most popular content delivery network on the web.
It has 6.6% of the CDN market share and is detected on 2.1% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 👨👩👦👦 Community
💸 Pricing
Fastly is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- CDN
- Rank: 3
- Market share: 6.6%
🏆 Fastly Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the CDN category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Switzerland in the CDN category.
⚡ Sites Using Fastly
We have data on 69,153 websites that use the Fastly CDN. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Fastly is 
pinterest.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinterest.com |
#15 | English | |
| 2 |  spotify.com |
#22 | Sweden | English |
| 3 |  vimeo.com |
#23 | United States | English |
| 4 |  adobe.com |
#28 | United States | English |
| 5 |  twitch.tv |
#42 | United States | English |
| 6 | #44 | Australia | English | |
| 7 |  paypal.com |
#45 | United States | American English |
| 8 |  nytimes.com |
#50 | United States | English |
| 9 | #52 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #53 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 11 | #55 | English | ||
| 12 | #56 | American English | ||
| 13 | #65 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 14 | #67 | United States | English | |
| 15 | #68 | United States | English | |
| 16 |  scribd.com |
#70 | United States | English |
| 17 |  gov.uk |
#76 | United Kingdom | English |
| 18 | #82 | English | ||
| 19 | #86 | English | ||
| 20 | #89 | United States | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Fastly:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Fastly are from the United States and the United Kingdom.
- United States 35.8%
- United Kingdom 8.1%
- Germany 4.4%
- Canada 4.3%
- Australia 4.3%
- Japan 3.7%
- France 3.4%
- Brazil 2.8%
- Spain 2.1%
- Other 31.1%
Most Fastly users speak English, Spanish, or German.
- English 78.8%
- Spanish 3.4%
- German 3.2%
- French 2.4%
- Japanese 2.3%
- Portuguese 2.1%
- Italian 1%
- Dutch 0.9%
- Chinese 0.7%
- Other 5.2%
The Fastly CDN is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 49.7%
- .org 13.1%
- .net 2.4%
- .co.uk 2.3%
- .com.au 1.9%
- .de 1.7%
- .ca 1.6%
- .com.br 1.2%
- .fr 0.9%
- Other 25.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Fastly include business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 18.2%
- Education/Reference 8.4%
- Marketing/Merchandising 7.9%
- Online Shopping 6%
- Blogs/Wiki 4.4%
- Internet Services 4.2%
- Software/Hardware 4.1%
- Entertainment 3.9%
- Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO 3.9%
- Other 39%
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What is the company behind Fastly?
Fastly is owned by Fastly, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Does Fastly offer a free plan?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
Which country uses Fastly the most?
The majority of Fastly users are from the United States.
Who uses Fastly?
According to our data, Fastly is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as pinterest.com, spotify.com, and vimeo.com.
Is Fastly used on government websites?
Overall, we found Fastly on 159 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Fastly?
Yes, quite a few! Overall, we know of 541 academic websites in the United States that use Fastly.
How does Fastly compare to its competitors?
Fastly is one of the most popular content delivery networks, second only to 
Cloudflare and 
Amazon CloudFront.
What are the alternatives to Fastly?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Fastly may include Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, and 
Akamai.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,372,830 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.